Performance Consulting ― Applying Performance Improvement in Human Resource Development

Improving individual and organizational performance is imperative to establishing and maintaining a high performance workplace, developing intellectual capital, promoting productivity, and enhancing profitability. Organizations must be flexible and agile in approaching business strategies. Against this backdrop, the time has come to revisit the role of training, HRD, and instructional design in today's organizations. Performance Consulting: Applying Performance Improvement in Human Resource Development is a leading-edge text that maps to existing curricula and syllabi, as well as real-world workplace learning and performance workflow, covering HRD, systemic and strategic approaches to organizational learning and performance improvement, roles, competencies, instructional design, performance analysis and evaluation, and implementation.

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems in the College of Education on the University Park Campus of The Pennsylvania State University. He has worked full-time in human resource management and employee training and development from 1979 to the present. He combines real-world experience with academic and consulting experience. He is the co-author of Improving On-the-Job Training and Mastering the Instructional Design Process both from Wiley.